Family handoutA teenager, who was left alone in a mental health hospital, should have been under constant supervision when she died and later died, an inquiry heard.
Ruth Szymankiewicz was taken care of on 12 February 2022, was being taken by a member of employees in her first innings at Hunterkomb Hospital near Medenhead.
14 -year -old Salisbury was unaware for about 15 minutes and went alone to walk to the hospital and go to his room, said the assistant coroner Ian Wade Casey.
Shortly after, he was found unconscious and two days later he died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Ruth was looked after by a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) Temes ward in the hospital since October 2021. He was found out of a dining disorder.
Hospital, which has been closed since then Insufficient rated And Need to improve later In two separate inspections by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2021.
Her parents Kate and Mark said that Ruth loved and studied with animals and he had a “fierce, prescribed” personality and a “huge heart”.
She said that she was “and still loves deeply” and her death “shattered us”.
The jury heard that she had climbed Kilimanjaro at the age of 11 years. She lived in Tanzania for a time with her mother and father, a GP and surgeon and her two sisters.
‘Incredibly difficult to navigate’
Ruth was initially looked after in children’s wards at Salisbury Hospital, but when a nasogastric tube fed the material in a lung instead of her stomach in September 2021. He was shifted to Southampton for further care.
A few days later, her parents said that they were told that Ruth would be taken to Hunterkomb Hospital, which they were found to have been rated and two hours drive away from their house.
Dr. Szymankiewicz stated why Ruth was needed to take to the hospital and a picu was “opaque” and this system “was incredibly difficult to navigate”.
He said in a statement, “We want us to give a tough competition. We did not know how terrible it would be.”
He said that “no meaning was that the employees thought it was important to communicate with them about Ruth’s care”.
Serious problems, such as Ruth, drinking cleaning fluid and black eyes, were not raised with them, Dr. Sizymankiewicz said.
It is thought that the hospital workers, who later received false papers, returned to Ghana, where it is thought that he was from.
Inquiries in Buckinghamshire Coronor Court at Biksfield are expected to last for about two weeks.
